Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its favor, the City Council of Grants Pass, Oregon, voted unanimously to adopt a new camping resolution to help address homelessness.

Grants Pass police said the 7th Street site moved to only overnight camping on Jan. 21, allowing people to sleep there from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m., while the other camp site at 755 SE J St. is closed.

Tents set up at a homeless campsite near Grants Pass City Hall on March 25, 2025. Jane Vaughan / JPR. Homeless people can’t be cited, arrested or fined for camping in Grants Pass, Oregon, for now.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The small Oregon city at the heart of a recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to enforce outdoor sleeping bans has voted to prohibit camping but ...

Grants Pass is trying to create capacity for 150 tents — the amount Judge Sarah McGlaughlin estimated was previously ... a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.

He said the city now has a chance to set an example for other communities in Oregon. “Grants Pass could be a model,” Stenson said, “either of what to do or what not to do. ...

A Josephine County judge on Monday ordered the city of Grants Pass to halt enforcement actions against homeless campers for two weeks, pending a deeper review of a legal challenge.

By Ben Botkin, Oregon Capital Chronicle. GRANTS PASS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A Josephine County judge on Monday issued a 14-day temporary restraining order that blocks the city of Grants Pass from ...

Grants Pass, a small city of about 40,000 along the Rogue River in the mountains of southern Oregon, has struggled for years to address the homelessness crisis and become emblematic of the ...

Over the last 10 months, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has finalized the end of the state’s three-year experiment with drug decriminalization, declared a 90-day state of emergency to address the ...